National farm advocate, Sidney resident, Marian Loch Lenzen passes at age 84

Longtime Sidney resident and prominate national farm advocate, who joined then President Jimmy Carter in the Rose Garden, Marian Ruth Loch Lenzen, a resident of the Sidney area for more than 65 years, died Monday.

Her life was spent raising her family and telling the story of Sidney to the world.

Marian was born in 1928, in Fairbury, Neb., the daughter of Kathrene Bennett and Frank T. Loch. She attended schools in Fairbury and Omaha before moving with her parents and siblings to Sidney in 1945. Marian graduated from Sidney’s St. Patrick’s Academy in 1946.

In life she married a Sidney farmer na...